Category: The Great Outdoors
Making Sports Visible: Italian Sports Logos from M...
Posted by Marco Giani | Jul 23, 2020 | Archival Research, Athletics, Cycling, Fencing, Football, General, Leisure, Rowing, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Sport & Leisure History, Sport & Politics, Swimming & Diving, Team Sports, The Great Outdoors, Winter Sports | 0
Barbara Cartland’s Sporting Exploits Revisited
Posted by Rachel Harris-Gardiner | Jul 6, 2020 | Gender and Sport, Leisure, Motoring, The Great Outdoors | 0
‘For Me it’s Like Magic…’ ...
Posted by Alexandra Park Research Team | May 30, 2020 | Cycling, History of Alexandra Park Manchester, Leisure, The Great Outdoors | 0
A Brief History of British Public Parks before 187...
Posted by Nick Piercey | Apr 30, 2020 | Archival Research, History of Alexandra Park Manchester, Leisure, The Great Outdoors | 0
“And then we were Boycotted”
New Discoveries about the Birth of Women’s Football in Italy [1933]
Part 7
by Marco Giani | Sep 3, 2020 | Archival Research, Focus on Fodens: History of Women's Football, Football, Gender and Sport, Leisure, Olympics, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Sport & Politics, Team Sports, The Great Outdoors, Winter Sports | 0
The author would like to express thanks to Luigi and Francesco Ferrari for the images (taken from...
Read MoreLeisure in Alexandra Park:
The Ornamental Lake, Skating, and Fishing
by Alexandra Park Research Team | Aug 6, 2020 | History of Alexandra Park Manchester, Leisure, Sport & Leisure History, The Great Outdoors, Winter Sports | 0
Introduction An Ornamental Lake was an integral part of the designs for the new Alexandra Park...
Read MoreMaking Sports Visible: Italian Sports Logos from Milan Archivio di Stato
by Marco Giani | Jul 23, 2020 | Archival Research, Athletics, Cycling, Fencing, Football, General, Leisure, Rowing, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Sport & Leisure History, Sport & Politics, Swimming & Diving, Team Sports, The Great Outdoors, Winter Sports | 0
PLEASE NOTE ~ All images are taken from: Milano, Archivio di Stato di Milano, Prefettura di...
Read MoreBarbara Cartland’s Sporting Exploits Revisited
by Rachel Harris-Gardiner | Jul 6, 2020 | Gender and Sport, Leisure, Motoring, The Great Outdoors | 0
Barbara Cartland: queen of the romantic novel with a passion for pink and traditional values, or a...
Read More‘A village falling into decay’ – How Dunoon Became a Popular Holiday Resort for the People of Glasgow.
by Imogen Allen | Jun 25, 2020 | Archival Research, Student Zone, The Great Outdoors, University of Chester | 0
Introduction Dunoon, is now the largest town on the Cowal Peninsular, however, in 1822, Hugh...
Read More‘For Me it’s Like Magic…’
Stories from The Bike Hive
by Alexandra Park Research Team | May 30, 2020 | Cycling, History of Alexandra Park Manchester, Leisure, The Great Outdoors | 0
This article, which follows on from ‘Cyling in Alexandra Park; [click HERE to read] takes...
Read MoreA Brief History of British Public Parks before 1870
by Nick Piercey | Apr 30, 2020 | Archival Research, History of Alexandra Park Manchester, Leisure, The Great Outdoors | 0
Introduction In 2020, Alexandra Park, in southern Manchester, celebrates 150 years since its...
Read MoreAlexandra Park: 150 Years of the Park
by Margaret Roberts | Mar 31, 2020 | History of Alexandra Park Manchester, The Great Outdoors | 0
Parks have always been important sites for leisure since the widespread development of municipal...
Read MoreThe Arcane World of Working-class Canary Breeding in Victorian Britain
by Mike Huggins | Feb 10, 2020 | Leisure, The Great Outdoors | 0
When I was a boy, quite a few coal miners in the pit rows of County Durham kept canaries. Canaries...
Read More‘Pen and paper quizzes, games and dances’:
Holiday making with the Co-operative Holidays Association and Holiday Fellowship
by Douglas Hope | Nov 14, 2019 | Podcasts, The Great Outdoors | 1
This podcast from Dr Douglas Hope, from a collection of short papers on aspects of sport and...
Read MoreHealing Landscapes:
Psychology and the Outdoor Movement in the 1920s
by Melanie Tebbutt | Oct 17, 2019 | Podcasts, The Great Outdoors | 0
This podcast from Prof Melanie Tebbutt, from a collection of short papers on aspects of sport and...
Read MoreA Passion for Polo
by Roy Case | Sep 23, 2019 | Team Sports, The Great Outdoors | 0
Not the glistening white spherical mint with the hole in the middle, but the game played on...
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